Partition for boxes.



J. T. FERRES.

PARTITION FOR BOXES.

APPLICATION FILED JAN.15. 1906.

9%,958. Patented Feb. 22, 1910.

ANDREW KGRAHAM co, VNOIO-LITNOGRAF'HERS.WASMHGTON, u c- Eng JEFFREY T. FERRES, OF ANDERSON, INDIANA, ASSIGNOR T0 J. W. SEFTON MANUFAC- TUBING COMPANY, OF ANDERSON, INDIANA, A CORPORATION OF INDIANA.

PARTITION FOR BOXES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 22, 1910.

Application filed January 15, 1906. Serial N 0. 296,231.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JEFFREY T. FERRES, a citizen of the United States, residing at Anderson, Madison county, Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Partitions for Boxes, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to partitions for boxes and the like and sometimes referred to as fillers, whose object is to provide compartments or cells for containing the articles. As is well known the partitions or filler consist of strips of suitable material and interlocked and arranged at right angles with each other, such interlocking being accomplished by the provision of a slot or slots entering from one edge of the strips or partitions, but in practice it is found that in many cases, especially where the contained article, such as bottled goods, has considerable weight, each compartment is unable to support its article with the result that the lowermost wall of the partition sags on that side which has the slot and consequently the articles or goods in the lowermost set of compartments receive and are compelled to sustain the weight of the superimposed articles or goods, generally causing loss and damage from breakage.

The object of the invention is to overcome these objections by so constructing the partitions or filler that sagging of any one of the compartment walls is prevented and each compartment enabled to itself sustain its own article or goods and to thereby relieve the articles or goods in the compartments below from any pressure.

The various features of advantage and utility in my construction of partitions or filler will be apparent from the description hereinafter given.

In the accompanying drawing Figure 1 is a perspective of a filler or series of partitions embodying my invention; Fig. 2 a plan view of such filler or partitions; Fig. 3 a perspective of one of the strengthening or reinforcing strips employed; Fig. 4 a section through a portion of one of the strips when in place and Fig. 5 a detailed view of a modified form of construction of the partition and its strengthening strip.

Before describing my invention in detail, I will state that the number ofpartitions or cross strips employed and consequently the number of the resulting compartments is immaterial inasmuch as my invention may be employed in connection with a filler having any number of partitions and consequently having any number of compartments. However, for convenience and definiteness in the description of my invention I have chosen to illustrate such invention in connection with a filler composed of four partitions arranged in two sets intersecting each other at right angles and thereby providing nine compartments.

As herein shown the four partitions marked 1, 2, 3 and 4, respectively, are each slotted as usual along two lines extending substantially to the middle cross-line thereof as usual for the purpose of enabling such strips or partitions to be interlocked as clearly indicated in Figs. 1 and 2. In the present instance and by preference these partitions are made of double-faced corrugated paper board but it will be understood that so far as the generic idea of my invention is concerned it is immaterial whether the partitions be made of such kind of board or any other suitable material.

After the strips are assembled together as shown in the drawings with the two sets of partitions at right angles to each other as in actual use when inserted in a box or con tainer, a series of strengthening strips are arranged to cooperate with the partitions to support their slotted sides, in the present instance such strips being inserted through the body of each of the partitions and near that edge in which the slots enter, with the result that each strip extends across the slots of its partition and transversely through the body of the intersecting partitions. These strips 5 may be of any suitable material but in practice are made of wood veneer. Before being inserted each strip is sharpened at one end as indicated in Fig. 8 and is then passed through the body of its partition in the manner already explained after which the projecting ends of such strip are cut or trimmed off so as to be flush with the outer edges of its partition. In practice these strengthening strips are inserted with accuracy and with facility by machinery, the filler or partitions in their interlocked condition being inserted in a properly slotted block or the like after which the strips are fed by machinery and forced in a straight line across the partitions in the manner and for the purposes already described.

When the partitions are composed of double-faced corrugated board, the strengthening strips are by preference forced di rectly through the body of the corrugated board and by preference transversely of the corrugations thereof (though not necessarily at right angle to the same,) as in the pres ent illustrated filler. However, it is not essential so far as the broad idea of my invention is concerned that these strips should pass through or penetrate the body of the partitions or pierce the corrugations, so long as the strips are arranged and equipped to cooperate with the partitions for the purpose of strengthening the same and compensating for the loss in strength due to the slotting thereof. As a modification, I have shown in Fig. 5 a construction in which the strips instead of penetrating the corrugated board or its corrugations are simply embedded in the board which is suitably fiattened or depressed to receive its strengthening strip.

By the use of my invention I am enabled to provide a filler which avoids all of the disadvantages of the old form of filler hereinbefore referred to inasmuch as by the employment of the strengthening strips, each compartment is made self-sustaining as to its article or goods whose Weight on one side or end of the compartment is sustained by the solid side of the partition forming its lowermost wall while the other or slotted edge thereof, which has been heretofore considerably weakened and caused to sag by reason of the provision of the slots is made as strong or indeed stronger than the solid or continuous side or edge. Thus the articles or goods in the lowermost compartments will be entirely relieved of the weight of the articles or goods in the compartments above them and consequently the considerable loss and damage to goods in such lowermost compartments is entirely avoided.

I claim:

1. In combination with cross partitions which are slotted to interlock, a strip extending through the body of one of the partitions and across its slot and also through the other partition.

' 2. In combination with cross partitions which are slotted to interlock, a strip of wood veneer extending flatwise through the body'of one of the partitions and across its slot and also through another partition.

3. In combination with slotted partitions arranged to interlock and made ofdoublefaced corrugated paper board, a strengthening strip piercing transversely the corrugations of one of the partitions and extendin'g across its slot.

' 4. In combination with slotted partitions arranged to interlock and made of doublefaced corrugated paper board, said partitions forming compartments, a strengthening strip extending through the corrugations of one of the partitions along the edge thereof having the slot and located within theconfines of the board.

In combination with slotted partitions arranged to interlock and made of doublefaced corrugated paper board, said partitions forming compartments, a strip of wood veneer extending flatwise through the corrugations of one of the partitions along the edge thereof having the slot and located within the confines of the board.

6. In combination with slotted partitions arranged to interlock and made of doublefaced corrugated paper board, said partitions forming compartments, a series of strips of wood veneer, one for each partition, each strip extending tlatwise transversely of the corrugations of its partition along the slotted edge thereof embedded within the portions of the partition between the slots and extending across the slots.

7. In combination with partitions which are slotted to interlock and thereby form comparti'nents, and a series of strengthening strips, one for each partition, each strip entering an edge of and passing through the body of its partition and extending across its slot and also passing transversely through the partition or partitions with which such partition interlocks.

8. In combination with slotted partitions arranged to interlock and made of double faced corrugated paper board, and a series of strengthening strips one for each partition, each strip entering an edge of a partition and passing through the body thereof between the two facing sheets of the double faced paper board, each strip also extending across the slot of its partition and passing transversely through the partition or partitions with which such partition interlocks.

9. In combination with partitions which are slotted from their edges toward their center lines so as to form on one side of each partition a series of tongue portions and which are arranged to interlock crosswise to form compartments, a stifiening strip extending along and embedded within the ends of the tongue portions of one of said partitions and at the slots in the same piercing the intersecting partition or partitions with which such partition interlocks.

10. In combination with partitions made of doublefaced corrugated paper board, which partitions are slotted from their edges toward their center lines so as to form on one side of each partition a series of tongue portions and which are arranged to interlock crosswise to form compartments, a stiffening'strip extending along and embedded within the ends of the tongue portions of one of said partitions between the faces of the board transversely of the corrugations of the inner portion of the same, said strip at the slots in said partition piercing the intersecting partition or partitions with which such partition interlocks.

11. In combination with partitions made of doublefaced corrugatec paper board, which partitions are slotted from their edges toward their center lines so as to form on one side of each partition a series of tongue portions, and which are arranged to interlock crosswise to form compartments, a strip of wood veneer extending along and embedded within the ends of the tongue portions of one of said partitions between the faces of the board transversely of the corrugations of the inner port-ion of the same, said strip at the slots in said partitions piercing the intersecting partition or partitions with which such partition interlocks.

12. In combination with a series of partitions each of which is slotted from one edge crosswise toward the opposite edge so as to form a series of tongue portions, and with a second series of partitions disposed transversely in the slots of the first mentioned series to form compartments, a series of stiffening strips, one for each of said first mentioned series of partitions, each strip extending along and embedded Within the ends of the tongue portions of its partition and at the slots in the same piercing transversely the members of the second series of partitions.

13. In comblnatlon with a serles of part1- tions made of double-faced corrugated paper board each slotted from one edge crosswise toward the opposite edge so as to form a se ries of tongue portions and with a second series of partitions disposed transversely in the slots of the first mentioned series to form compartments, a series of strips of wood veneer, one for each of said first mentioned series of partitions, each strip extending flatwise along and embedded within the ends of the tongue portions of its partition between the faces of the board transversely of the corrugations of the inner portion of the same, and at the slots in said partitions piercing transversely the members of said second series of partitions.

14:. In combination with two series of partitions, all made of double-faced corrugated paper board and each partition slotted from one side toward its center line to form a se ries of tongue portions and the two series being so arranged that the partitions inter lock to form compartments, a plurality of strengthening strips, one for each partition, each strip extending through the tongue portions of its partition and being embedded therein between the faces of the board transversely of the corrugations of the inner por tions of the same, and extending parallel to and near the outer ends of the tongue portions of such partition, and also at the slots in the partition extending transversely through the partition or partitions with which such partition interlocks.

JEFFREY T. FERRES.

Witnesses:

D. II. DURBIN, ELLA SMITH. 

